I'm home - reflections

Greetings all,

For those of you who are still wondering, I am home now (as of last Friday) and have thankfully not hit the ground completely running, as with previous trips.

As I've begun to meet up with people back here, I've been posed the question several times, "So, what was the best/most memorable/greatest part of your trip?" That's a hard question to answer, as i feel that the trip was broken up into three distinct parts - New York, Ontario/Quebec, and the Maritimes.

so for those of you who are still reading, and care to continue reading, i'll answer the question...if not for your sake, then for my own personal reflection.

New York (& Philly for one day!)
-visiting Ground Zero, the site of 9/11 and the memorial with Bon
-Phantom of the Opera
-sitting in countless cathedrals
-finding the RESTAURANT from Seinfeld
-walking Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge
-the entire day in Philly with Bon and Pri...priceless

Ontario/Quebec
-driving around the Niagara region with Greg
-touring Parliament Hill en francais
-rediscovering my love for maple syrup along the banks of the St. Lawrence
-singing David Archuletta's "Crush" at midnight while on the streets of Montreal while walking back to our hostel...and belting out Barenaked Ladies en route to Montreal from QC with Justine
-blues at a pub

Maritimes
-the wintery drive from Moncton to Halifax with Darrell, Cheryl and Collin
-watching Trade with my bro
-chilling at Shawn's grampie's sugar woods
-playing with my beautiful nephew first thing in the morning
-spending time with Nannie Murray

But if i were to answer the question for the trip as a whole, i would have to say that the best part of the trip was reconnecting with old friends and meeting new ones. A thread that weaves thru out each leg of the trip was the time i spent with people. Having candid and honest conversations about life, love, sharing our fears, our hopes, our dreams, laughing until we cried, and then reflecting about how we're all just on this journey of life trying to figure it out..but knowing that amidst all the things we don't know...that love always wins. it may not seem, feel, or even look like it with all the atrocities that happen everyday in this world, but im convinced of it...and i was refreshed to know that these people feel the same way too.

i know, i know...i sound like a cheeseball... but sometimes, cheese is just so good.

Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait for the answer. ~Author Unknown

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ~C.S. Lewis

as always, thanks for journeying with me.

until next time,
dL